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The political fanatic’s, criminally insane’s, and criminally non-insane’s, best friend.

 An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 200 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.

Maricopa County prosecutor Neha Bhatia said at Jeffrey Michael Kelly’s initial court appearance on Wednesday that federal agents told her about the large seizure made after Kelly’s arrest. Scopes, body armor and silencers were also found, she said. A machine gun was discovered in the car he was driving.

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A teenage boy allegedly killed his engineer father, his mom and three of his four siblings in their home

Mark Humiston, 42, his wife Sarah and three of their children were found shot dead on Monday inside their rustic mansion in Fall City by Lake Alice, about 30 miles east of Seattle

A 15-year-old boy was taken into custody after allegedly murdering five of the family’s seven members. 

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When Olmos Park police obtained a search warrant for [a] residence on Monday, authorities found an AK-47 manufactured in China [hidden from police] behind a TV mounted inside of [a] bedroom, the affidavit stated. A video obtained of a walk-in safe room full of guns inside [presumed wife-murderer] Brad Simpson’s house showed what appeared to be the same weapon.

Through further investigation, authorities confirmed that the gun was an AK-47 that could switch between full and semi-automatic

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The largest number of gun-indebted Americans are the tens of thousands of dead depressives in our vast Suicide Belt.

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UPDATE on the fanatic:

“A rough calculation estimates that this guy spent somewhere between $75,000 and $100,000 on ammunition. It’s hard to imagine it was to defend his life and property, unless he was preparing to defend them against the North Korean army. And I don’t think he spent it for sportsman’s purposes, unless he was hunting a T. rex for Thanksgiving dinner.

This country’s insane affection for its firearms is enough of a problem in normal times. But finding a guy with his own personal heavy-weapons platoon in his bedroom at this particular time in history makes me want to hide under the couch until it all passes.”

Margaret Soltan, October 24, 2024 3:47AM
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